Lois Griffin: The Worst Cartoon Mom 

was i too harsh on louis :(

The family has gotten so dysfunctional that the question isn't even "when will Lois divorce Peter?" to "who will file for divorce first?"

Say what you want about the Simpson's family dynamic, you can't deny that they still feel like a family, instead of a bunch of psychopaths constantly trying to kill each other.

Francine is a way better example of a suburban mom with an edge

Lois went from great mom to ……basically how Meg described her in that hurricane episode

Lois always had that more aggressive side to her character since the series' first season, but it was always complimented by her genuine love for her kids and and her husband. Nowadays, if her character isn't a hyper-aggressive nag, it's being labeled "Quahog's whore" with the amount of times she cheated on Peter.

Lois's old voice was so sweet and motherly. In late season three it became more high pitched, which was less motherly but also had a nice charm which complemented her new personality. But they've made it incredibly gargle-y to the point where she sounds like an old lady in a failing marriage. Oh wait

A character trait I miss from Lois in the earlier seasons was when they aligned Lois with Peter's sense of humor. An example being "Hey Lois, diarrhea" joke, where she finds the word diarrhea as hilarious as Peter. These type of jokes were mainly done to subvert your expectations of Lois reaction to get a funny joke. But it's little moments like that makes Peter and Lois marriage feel more special then a standard sitcom marriage. It was actually a key point of Lois's backstory where she fell in love with Peter, because he was himself compared to her rich friends and family. But naturally as the show went on they relied heavy on the mean spirited bad marriage/affair jokes. Personally I feel the marriages in the adult animated comedies work best, when the two characters actually enjoys their partner's eccentric personality traits. Example being Homer & Marge, Bob & Linda, and Stan & Francine.

A good example of Lois going overboard but it still being tame and fitting of the story is the Christmas episode when they ran out of paper towels .

In the beginning of the show, Lois was seen as the glue that held the family together, the more responsible one and the voice of reason against Peter, even offering words of wisdom to the rest of the family, with the exception of Stewie. There were times that she snapped due to the pressure and you understood why she did so and you couldn't blame her, with Peter or the one responsible for this apologizing at the end of the episode. Now she is just as, if not more, reckless than Peter.

Y’all remember when Lois didn’t sound like a broken printer?

Bob and Linda are probably have one of the most healthiest and normal marriage 😭 i freaking love them

It’s amazing that Francine is infinitely better written than Lois. When there’s a Francine episode It’s usually a good sign, when it’s a Lois episode you’re preparing to zone out. Also Francine is hotter 🏄‍♂️

all aspects of Lois Griffin are just made 4 times better by Francine with the twist that she actually cares for her family (she's also funny enough to have chemistry with all the family members, but that can be said by everyone in the Smith family)

That “hottest moms” list parody at the beginning was very 2008-2010ish, and I love it! I also love how one of the choices is Coral from Finding Nemo, and he just called her “fish” 😂

Lois is just the writers forgetting Bonnie existed and wrote her with the same personality and vices

Family Guy has no "straight guy" any more. It used to be Lois, then it became Meg, and now they are both just like everyone else.

I love how LS Mark uses the same intro for everytime he reviews a Family Guy character 😂😂

Personally I prefer “Quirky” Lois to “Mid-Life Crisis” Lois, just because I find her episodes during this era far more intriguing and less mean-spirited as a whole, but I can totally see where you’re coming from.

“become a shell of her former self” is a term that can be used to describe every family guy character now

You can completely understand why Lois and Marge barely had any scenes together in the crossover

family guy is the definition on why any cartoon shouldn't run forever

Girls have Depressed Lois Griffin, Men have Depressed Lo-Fi Bart Simpson, we are not the same.

One of my favorite early season episodes was the episode where Lois takes meg on spring break, it showed that she legitimately wanted to make meg happy but was flawed in the sense that she went way overboard with partying. It was a genuinely nice episodes in my opinion

I miss when it felt like she genuinely cared about her kids’ well-being, especially Meg’s. Now she just treats all of them like trash. It’s sad.

Its not Just Peter and Lois that I hate I just hate parents in animation in general I'm so sick and tired of animation especially adult animation protraying families as dysfunctional it has honestly made me appreciate shows like Bob's Burgers, Amphibia, and The Owl House that protray loving, happy, and healthy family dynamics.

He's going to review every family character isn't he?

0:08 WE LOSING OUR SPONSORSHIP WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🔊🔊🔊

I liked her breakdown in that Christmas episode. I think it's what a lot of moms feel like doing during the holidays. Source: my mom. She said the episode captured the frustrations really well.

One of my least favorite aspects of family guy is how completely unbearable the characters can be at times. Lois was one of the worst examples but I think Quagmire, Brian, or Peter may be a little worse in my opinion. She became an awful person toward the family and would lose her temper constantly, taking it out on them. Also the show has this bizarre mindset later on where they think sexualizing her, because she's a woman I guess, is meant to be like a joke or something but its never funny. That Simpsons jab is in my opinion, one of the most uncomfortable things I ever sat through. Again though, her being awful to the family is just so infurating to watch. I get its the norm to have every character in an adult animated comedy to be an asshole, but seriously, all it does is ruin my investment cause every single character can just get away with anything. Those kind of jokes can be funny, but having each of the cast be a prick to accommodate for it all the time, just makes thing miserable. Sorry for the tangent but I guess the subject of cartoon characters being irredeemable dickheads is a subject I'm very passionate about.

Probably my favorite one is the mom from The Oblongs. She is genuinely such a great and funny character

I totally agree with you on this. Lois (and the entire Family Guy cast, really) were better when they were more grounded. They were a dysfunctional family who still loved each other at the end of the day. The humour came from watching Peter do something stupid while Lois had to deal with him. At the end of the episode, it would all come together and was occasionally even heartwarming. Now we get a bunch of non-sequiturs about Peter/Lois/etc. just being terrible. The writers forgot that being mean isn't funny in and of itself. When Sterling Archer is a jerk, I don't laugh because he's being a jerk; I laugh because either A) He's going to succeed and make everyone mad that he was right while he gloats like a kid, or B) he's going to have it backfire terribly and face the consequences of his actions hilariously. Lois and Peter don't get that; they just get to be jerks with no real punchline. Great stuff as usual, Mark. Thanks for the video.

Can’t wait for mark to have a playlist that is nothing but character breakdowns of every family guy character.

Lois is a tragic character. Someone who was a grounded voice of reason and balance turned into an overbearing and destructive parent. It's sad when the deliberately written, toxic, and controlling Alana is a stronger parent and wife than Lois.

My thoughts on this can be summed up as: Altough Francine Smith has canonically done much wose things, Id still trust her more to take care of my 1 year old niece than Lois.

Worse thing about Lois as mother is how she allows Peter to abuse Meg. Dude farts on her and #ShutUpMeg is a catchphrase now.

Lois Griffin is the Skyler White of cartoon. I'm not despising the ladder character. Let alone the unfortunate actress of Breaking Bad.

I actually kinda admire quirky Lois. At least they’re not having Lois be nice and fake on the outside, but secretly awful, she’s just outwardly bitchy. It’s like they’re fully aware that she’s a bad person and they just embrace it and gave her some pretty fun episodes

Lois isn’t as bad as Brian, but I did really like her in older seasons. It was funny to watch her barely contain her wholesome mom facade under layers of (justified) frustration and rage. Lois going on a rampage because Meg couldn’t find paper towels will ALWAYS be better than Lois verbally and physically abusing her family

It's wild to think that Beth from Rick and Morty almost went in a similar direction, but season 3's overarching story took special attention towards pivoting her whole character to keep her from slowly devolving into an absolute bitch. It's something I'll always give em credit for.

Francine has slowly become my favorite character in American dad. Lois has become one of my least favorite characters in Family Guy

Seasons 4-7 was peak Family Guy if you ask me, the characters struck a perfect balance of selfish and caring.

Francine Smith pulls off the whole “quirky weird mom” thing a lot better imo

No matter how bad Lois became; Peter had the worst fate out of any character. He went from being a doofus with a heart of gold to the arguably the worst character of his own show.

Hey Lois, this is like that one time when we ruined your character

1:44 On the topic of people who say mum. Why doesn't Stewie He talks with a British accent yet he still says mom the American spelling and phrasing.

Season 1-3 Lois Griffin was Prime Lois that EVERYONE loved!

6:32 For those wondering, the moaning sound is from Suicide Mouse.

Lois rivals Brian and Peter when it comes to the most flanderized Family Guy characters.

I hate how Lois always cheats on people we but Peter never does something about it. Lois always makes up some lame excuse, like, “I only did it because you think I’m old!” (Peter made a minor comment about her grey hair) Lois is a lot more unfaithful in modern family guy, and that’s weird because normally you’d expect Peter to be the explosive husband and Lois (in earlier seasons) to be the type of wife that accepts the chaos without doing anything about it. Note- I didn’t realised how wrong this sounded until now.

I think both Lois and Brian were the voice of reason for the show being able to pull the reigns when things got too far. Now, however, they too have become engrossed within the off the walls wacky shenanigans of the show so now there’s no one there to say no.

Lois has turned into a character that you wouldn't mind if Stewie killed because she's become that awful.

In defense of the clutter episode, it’s extremely relatable because I too am a Stay-At-Home Mom who went through a minimalism phase, and it very much felt like that. My husband has vivid memories of every item we own strewn on the bed while I aggressively hold up a piece of underwear going “BUT DOES IT SPARK JOY???” And then yeeting it into oblivion when the answer was a very obvious no.

when "i forgor mom name" joke is so funny you do it twice in the first 60 seconds

My most hater moment for lois is when she becomes an anti vaxxer even though in another episode before she was trying to help a religous family that didnt believe in modern medicine.

i remember i saw someone say the difference between lois and peter and stan and francine is that lois and peter pretend they're good people and are worse off for it which makes them hard to watch and the humor fall flat but stan and francine know they're terrible selfish ppl which makes them (for the most part) fun to watch and fits the unhinged writing style. honestly most apt reading on the differences in the way the families in family guy and american dad are written.

I honestly would be down to see them redo some modern episodes just to see how different things would be if the cast had their personalities in the classic episodes.

0:22 fish

I am convinced the "writers" or manatees or whomever is in charge of the scripts of family guy, hate their mothers so much they pour all their anger into Lois and that's why she's become such a shrill, heartless, cruel, insufferable **** who abuses her family and terrorizes everyone else.

2:10 I hate that I know what that sound is

Lois went from a loving mom that was a voice of reason to a sex crazed maniac that doesn't love her family anymore

0:41 Okay so one, Roxanne is not a mom. Two, I can't believe how masaive BriBriCosplay is now. She came up on my tiktok the first thing when i joined in 2020. She lived in a tiny apartment had never even cosplayed in public and never done any revealing cosplay and now she's rolling in dough. And i didn't accomplish much in that time. Brb spiraling.

I’ve always seen Louis as a woman struggling with identity. A girl from a rich family marries a normal man to then embark on a normal life while yet trying to hold onto her previous life. She’s also a really amazing portrayal a mother with severe postpartum depression after Stewies birth.

That whole bed scene with them summarizes Peter and Lois’s whole relationship. Once married becaused they genuinely loved each other, but now are still married out of necessity for the kids so who cares about the infedelity because nothing matters in the show anymore. I legit need to see how these writings sessions go for each episode because there clearly a lot going on with the writers occasionally venting about the state of things in the show yet there still feels like there is a lot of missing context why it’s happening most of the time.

0:34 Her name is Donna.

Out of all of those Family Guy characters in this series of videos , I think Springtrap is my personal favourite

7:28 What he said about the Simpsons having clear guidelines and restrictions I feel could have been applied to Family Guy if the show didn't get cancelled twice and had more constancy with staff when it was being developed.

9:38 - The reason why you probably find this new episode premise most original and interesting is because the core of that idea is stolen. The premise is almost completely ripped from King of Queens (S1, EP18 I think, not sure) where one of the characters (Arthur) goes through the exact same thing with becoming obsessed with becoming the employee of the month at a Coffee Shop he doesn't work at.

I don't watch Family Guy, but these videos are super informative for someone who doesn't watch. Good Video!

The scene where Meg was punishing Stewie, THAT IS A REAL MOTHER!!!

Hearing “Work Harder” in the mom montage was like seeing your teacher at a supermarket

0:11 I can immediately tell which one is #1.

The intro was worth it.

4:07 Peter hit her back. Peter Did Nothing Wrong

its amazing how current Lois has absorbed all of Classic Stewie's dark traits

It’s weird that she went from sweet and caring, to becoming a sociopath, mean spirited and cruel to everyone. Including her own family. She could’ve been the voice of reasons to her family’s dilemma, but nope. They’re afraid that she’ll be too much like Marge Simpson, so decided to turn into this cruel and abusive person. This is the reason why this series is going down hill.

She had the worst character downfall in Family Guy history

2:57 ANIMAL ABUSE-

One cartoon mom I really like other than Marge Simpson is Linda from Bob’s Burgers, she’s hilarious and relatable and loves her family!

You know after season four it seems that Meg is the one who took her mother’s place for being the most grounded one in the family. And thus is part of the reason why she’s treated so poorly. And in a sad way without Lois’s logical and heartfelt ways the abuse that Meg often suffers replaces Lois’s old caring ways as the family’s current day glue. If you really watch the show closely through-out the first six to seven seasons that unfortunately shows.

One of the main reasons I started loving family guy again was when I saw the Lois coffee shop episode, it felt like family guy finally found a new thing to try out with character centric episodes and I LOVED it

You need to make an hour long video on the real cartoon mom Linda.

to be honest...no I'd say the worst cartoon mom is Rose Quartz, I mean at least Lois didn't literally cause an entire war that caused the deaths or corruption of many MANY innocent gems, and then literally poof away to let her child deal with the fallout But yeah Lois gets second place for sure

Watching this video again after Marks community post saying that a sponsor backed out after seeing the "hottest mom" intro They just couldn't handle the tomfoolery

Next you should do Stewie: Domination to Dominated

The episode where Lois becomes a loubge singer in the basement and Peter grows to slowly resent her is top tier. To see what they've done with her..

Lois fell off when Stewie stopped trying to kill her. Stewie needs to get her back in line.

lol do you have a full version of the song at like 0:14

Mark didn’t had to be this harsh Lewis Griffin from the Simpson is my favourite character 😡

Yet another Family guy character who went on a downhill spiral.

when im in a worst cartoon mom competition and my opponent is peggy hill.

crazy how nux Taku just ripped this video and added poorly photoshopped boobs into the thumbnail for engagement

0:17 Apparently her name is Jane.

Legitimate question: Is there any animated married couple with a relationship more toxic & disturbing then Peter & Lois?

3:43 i don't think ive ever seen this clip in my life and i can not for the love of me find it

Literally almost every character acts exactly the same now, the only difference being they have a new coat of paint It's so tiring

Lois may not be a good mom, but at least she isn't a mom-influencer forcing her children to do things on the internet

You Should of titled this Video as: Lois Griffin: A Mother Without Morals Because Lois nowadays lacks restraint and discipline, along with her repeateded Emotional and Sometimes Physical Abuse of her family, Meg especially.

4:13- "You're never gonna get a Simpsons episode where Homer decks Marge in the jaw." Dark Simpsons would like a word with you!

I’m convinced that Mark took one look at his poll, saw that Lois had the most votes at first, and told his editor to work on it, even though a majority of us voted for Stewie.